Marantz CD6005,SA8004 or Oppo 105?

If you are just going to listen to CD's, I would try to find a used Rotel RCD-1072. They do come up for sale every so often, but you have to be fast because they sell almost immediately. Its just one of those components that they just got right.

Mceljo,

Why SACD? Its a great format but I don't see a lot of support for it. Are you able to find music that you really want to listen to? For me, I just accumulated a bunch of demo CD's that I used to test the format, but not much more.

If you look on Amazon you will see quite a few SACD options and in my experience they are almost always excellent recordings. It seems that if the goal was SACD then it makes sense to listen to it in that format. I also have a Sony blu-ray player that outputs stereo and surround DSD into my receiver and for some music surround really makes a huge difference for the positive. Stereo is better for the vast majority, but surround is the ticket for some recordings. SACD includes the surround as an option. Just recently I heard a positive improvement between Redbook and SACD, my integrated seemed to take my system to the point that the difference was real.

Klimt - If you haven't yet, check recent postings to a very old thread called, "The Best CD Player for the Money". Some interesting comments there from Mr.Tennis. See also his recent CDP reviews in Audiophilia.

Thanks for the responses. It seems like everyone is switching to music server based systems these days. Is that truly the trend and if so is the sound quality as good? And is it more or less expensive?

Thanks

I'm very interested in this feature of the Oppo. Can anyone tell me how their experience with it?

USB Asynchronous DAC – By bypassing the low fidelity, poor quality DAC of traditional computer soundcards, the BDP-105 turn any computer into a high performing multi-media source by converting digital audio to analog through the ESS Sabre32 Reference DAC. If your computer can play it, the BDP-105 can convert it to analog.